Period 1
This agricultural staple of the Americas was the cornerstone of civilizations like the Aztec and Inca.
What is maize?
This document, signed aboard a ship in 1620, established self-governance for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1763 agreement ended the French and Indian War and removed France from North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1854 act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery, leading to violent clashes.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The exchange of crops, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and New World is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her religious beliefs and became a symbol of dissent.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This 1773 event was a response to British taxation on tea and escalated tensions between Britain and the colonies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The idea that Americans were destined to expand westward across the continent is known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the realities of slavery and galvanized abolitionist sentiment.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This labor system was used by the Spanish to control and Christianize Native Americans in the New World.
What is the encomienda system?
This conflict between Native Americans and New England settlers was led by Metacom in 1675.
What is King Philip’s War?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, declared the colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production and entrenched slavery in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1863 declaration by Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in Confederate-held territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Native American city near present-day St. Louis, known for its large mounds, was one of the most complex pre-Columbian societies.
What is Cahokia?
This economic policy sought to maximize exports, minimize imports, and increase wealth for European powers.
What is mercantilism?
This plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention favored large states by basing representation on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The transportation of goods and people improved drastically with the development of this steam-powered vehicle by Robert Fulton.
What is the steamboat?
This Union strategy sought to blockade Southern ports and gain control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This 1680 uprising saw the Pueblo people revolt against Spanish colonization in present-day New Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
The trade route that connected Africa, the Americas, and Europe for the exchange of goods and enslaved people was called this.
What is the triangular trade?
These essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, argued for ratification of the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This social movement sought to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This group in Congress pushed for civil rights and voting rights for freed African Americans after the Civil War.
Who are the Radical Republicans?